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self
I. \ˈself, ˈseu̇f, South often ˈse(ə)f\ pronoun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English self, seolf, sylf; akin to Old Frisian & Old Saxon self, Old High German selb, Old Norse sjālfr, Gothic silba; akin to Latin se oneself — more at suicide
1. : myself
< he died when we — self, two brothers, one sister — were very young — Current Biography >
2. : himself, herself
< his family, living in a four-roomed house, consisted of self, wife, and six — I.J.C.Brown >
II. adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English self, seolf, sylf
1. obsolete : belonging to oneself : own
< by self and violent hands took off her life — Shakespeare >
2. obsolete : identical, same
< that self chain about his neck which he forswore most monstrously to have — Shakespeare >
3.
a. : having a single character or quality throughout : uniform, unmixed; specifically : having one color only : self-colored
< self a flower >
b. of an archer's bow : made of a single piece of wood — contrasted with backed
c. : of the same kind (as in color, material, or pattern) as something with which it is used
< a self belt >
< a self trimming >
III. noun
(plural selves \ˈselvz, ˈseu̇vz, South often ˈse(ə)vz\ ; see sense 6)
Etymology: Middle English, from self, pron.
1.
a. : the entire person of an individual
< his fair daughter's self … is my object — Robert Browning >
b. : the realization or embodiment of an abstract quality
< she was beauty's self — James Thomson †1748 >
2.
a. : a personality or mode of behavior regarded as typical of a particular individual
< his true self was at last revealed >
b. : an aspect of one's personality predominant at a certain time or under certain conditions
< his better self >
< his weaker self >
< his reckless self >
< my clothes keep my various selves buttoned up together — L.P.Smith >
c. : a person in his normal state of health or best physical or mental condition
< feel like my old self today >
< looked like his old self in the ring >
3.
a. : the integrated unity of subjective experience specifically including those characteristics and attributes of the experiencing organism of which it is reflexively aware
b. : the internal regulatory system of response and activity tendencies within the organism : the source of social adaptation and growth of the individual personality
c. : the dynamic organization of patterns of behavior acquired through social frustration
4. : personal interest or advantage : self-interest
< the really successful people in it are those who put service before self — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) >
5.
a. usually capitalized, objective idealism : the supreme self : absolute
b.
(1) often capitalized, Hinduism : atman
(2) Buddhism : a dynamic unstable agglomerate of skandhas that in itself possesses no inherent substantiality or enduring quality and that continues in constant flux until final dissolution at death
6. plural selfs \-fs\
a. : an individual produced by self-fertilization — distinguished from crossbred
b. : a self-colored individual
IV. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1. : to cause (individuals of the same race or strain) to breed together : inbreed
2. : to pollinate with pollen from the same flower or plant : self-fertilize : self-pollinate
intransitive verb
: to engage in self-pollinating : undergo self-pollination
< try to prevent test strains from selfing >
V. noun
: material that is part of an individual organism
< ability of the immune system to distinguish self from nonself > |